Fruit Toast

Ingredients

• sweet California prunes
• nicely dried apricots or peaches

Method

1. 1

   Cook fruit until well done and liquor is thick.

2. 2

   Rub fruit through a colander.

3. 3

   If pulp is thin, stew again until consistency of marmalade.

4. 4

   Serve on slices of Zwieback moistened in cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Healthful cookery (1904) by E. E. Kellogg, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

fruit toasts in place of cream for softening the Zwie- back when preferred. Serve the slices in individual dishes after any of the following — 60 T oasts 01 RECIPES Poached Egg On Toast. — Prepare the toast as directed above, and serve hot with a well-poached egg on each slice. Cream Toast. — Take slices of Zwieback, moisten with hot cream, to which a little salt has been added, pack immediately in a hot dish, and serve. Cream Toast, No. 2. — Pour hot cream, or milk thickened with corn-starch to the consistency of cream, over toasted Granose Biscuit. Nut Gravy Toast. — -Over moistened slices of Zwieback pour a gravy made by adding three or four tablespoonfuls of Nut Meal to every cup of water used. When boiling, thicken with flour rubbed smooth in a little cold water. Salt to taste. Snowflake Toast. — 1 quart of milk, 1 table- spoonful of flour, y2 cup of cream, 2 eggs. Heat the milk, to which has been added the half cup of cream and a little salt, to boiling. Thicken with a tablespoonful of flour rubbed smooth in a little cold milk. Have ready the whites of the two eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, and when the sauce is well thickened, turn a cupful of it slowly on the beaten egg, stirring well meanwhile so that it will 62 Healthful Cookery form a light, frothy mixture, to which add the re- mainder of the sauce. If properly prepared, this sauce should be of a light, frothy consistency throughout. Serve as a dressing on nicely mois- tened Zwieback. Tomato Toast. — Heat one pint of strained stewed tomato to boiling. Then thicken with corn- starch or flour rubbed smooth in a little cold water. Season with salt, and add, or not, as preferred, a half cup of hot cream. Serve on slices of mois- tened Zwieback. Sunshine Toast. — Select good ripe tomatoes, cook thoroughly, sift through a fine colander to re- move the skins and seeds. To one pint of sifted tomato add one spoonful of white flour, a pinch of salt, the same of thyme, and a little Cocoanut Butter, if desired. Cook a few minutes, and serve hot over moistened Zwieback. Fruit Toast. — • Cook sweet California prunes, nicely dried apricots or peaches

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.